Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
I don't understand why the US doesn't have a much closer relationship with India. Especially for manufacturing.
They're an English-speaking Democracy. We should get along with them way better than China, and yet.
Oh, there are OVAs.
In one, the girls exercise at a gym designed to accommodate all species. Shenanigans ensue.
In the other, the daughter from Rachnera's original host family comes to take her back. The girls put her to the test. Shenanigans ensue.
For those who care, the blu-ray release has enhanced art.
Mostly by drawing all the nipples that they can't show on TV.
The opening theme reminds me of the opening from _Gabriel Dropout_ for some reason. Probably because it's sung by the full cast and a bit over the top.
I would like to thank the official translators for translating the stat blocks that appear at the end of each episode.
A wall of text that is only on screen for a few seconds could have been skipped over, but they didn't, and I appreciate that.
Side question: is Miia a tsundere? She almost fits the violent variant of that archetype, but her violence is never directed against her love interest.
Maybe I'm just over fitting here.
The mermaid stat block suggests that obsession with _The Little Mermaid_ is a racial trait, not just a personal fixation of Mero's.
Etc.
(Yeah, that really happened.)
The answer is Miia, I guess. She seems a little more developed than the others.
Actually, there's a bit of laziness later on, as characterization and naming becomes even more defaulted.
Like, the Arachne's name is Rachnera. They're not trying.
The most terrifying moment of the whole show was this:
15yo: what anime are you watching nowadays?
Me: this dumb harem show about a guy who ends up hosting a bunch of exchange students, but they're all monsters.
15yo: Monster Musume? How far in are you? Who's your favorite?
I can thoroughly recommend this to the horny nets who flip their Monster Manual between the Succubus, Nymph, and Dryad entries because they can't acquire real pornography.
I'm really not sure who I can recommend this to that isn't already aware of it.
But it is fun.
So, that's the show.
What's my takeaway?
Well, it serves exactly what it says on the label. If you want 12 episodes of Monster Girl T&A* you've got it.
* Significantly less A, because most of the girls have nonhuman hindquarters.
After groveling at the market for unsalable leavings and combing the woods for edible wild plants, they'll still barely make ends meet.
Didn't you know you can expense your food costs? Looks like Smith forgot to mention that.
For the end, there is just shenanigans ever after.
Lala decides to stick around to see why Kurusu doesn't die from all the shenanigans. Smith approves; one less troublemaker to keep track of.
Kurusu is having trouble making ends meet. Food costs are up for the size of his large family.
Taking this as a threat, the other girls decide to evac Kurusu to save his life. But they're not really safe on their own. He's probably in more danger from their help than anything else.
But Lala the Dullahan isn't a Reaper of anything. She's just chunibyo.
The second note was written by a Dullahan who has lost her head.
Kurusu and the girls help find it, and befriend her.
But she is a reaper of the dead and pronounces that Kurusu is at death's door.
D is Doppel. She and Smith invented the threatening notes to force Kurusu to get closer to the girls so they can have their interspecies test case.
What was the deal with the second note then?
What second note? Oh no!
A second threatening letter appears. It's almost romantic in its tone.
The girls from MON want to solve the case right away. Also, they're sick of watching Kurusu go on dates with the other girls. So now he's going to date them! (Shenanigans ensue.)
The idea that people are just virtue signalling or applauding their chosen team when they talk about politics is a slow acting infohazard that wrecks your ability to take people seriously.
(I think it's also correct most of the time.)
